The Sun. — London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

MAI I,S. AR RIV —:x Malta, z Dublin. DIJE-..j Gottenburgh;* 24 Waterford. Consols PRICE OF sTocKs T; , 11.: DAY AT T%Vr.LVE O'CILOCX. - 68 i 4 1 Red. Ann. .. 69 t, E SUN. LOLLM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUD.EILI:4* L 0 ND 0 IV, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1810. We have this day the pleasure of confirming i'he agreeable intelligence which we communicated to our Readers on Saturday last, of the entire submis sion of the mutinous trcops on the Madras''Sthtion. DC.) cements respeeling this truly alarming state of things, and their happy termination, were brought by Major B 116), in the country ship The Major left the Cape of Good - Hope on the teth 'November, with Dispatches from Lord CALEDON, and left St. Helena on the Ist of December, but as the William was closely fol lowed by a French privateer in the chopi of the Channel on Monday last, the Major threw his dispatches overboard. The Ganges, coun try ship, had sailed from St. Helena, two days be fore, with dispatches from the Governor-General, dated Madras, Sept. 17, communicating the intel ligence which we this day present to our Readers; but the Ganges has not yet arrived with those dis patches. Lord,Nlfbro had arrived at Madras, on the 1 Ith of September; we expressed our hopes, a few days ago, that the vigour, decision, and ability of the Noble Lord, would soon quell the mutinous s >h it that prevailed, and we have the satisfaction to find that events have justified those hopeS; it ap pears Ihat the Government of Fort St. George had adopted very conciliatory measures in order to restore obedience in the disaffe&ed troops, but with- Out success ; but that it had in no instance evinced, any w ak and tk tuporizing policy. •By the deter mined loyalty and spirit of the Kill's troops, and the confusion and disagreement that arose among the mutineers, the spirit of insurrection has been.ef f • ~ ; 0;1.' saidued. The Go%ertiment hss since acted with the same liberal policy, pardoning the men and .Non-comissioned Officers who were misled in these in , co , tnnate nansrictions, and reserving the full weight of punishment for those who seduced them Ito s:ich daring criminality. We doubt not that measures will be taken to prevent any return of such ini r ng and disgracef.il prcceedings Yesterday Hamburg!). -papers to the 6th inst. arrived. They state, that the Ex-Empress JOSE , ViIINE is living suite happy at IWa:MalSOri ; and tat a lltw days after' the divorce, her late hus . blnd paA a lo:Ig visit, and dined . with her These PApers . tilso trf9rm us, that hisliojesty the Emperor BUONAPARTE finds an agreeable companion in the Princess BORGHEsE, who resides at Little Trianon. • , The Tyrolese are represented as being quite sub dued ; but this actount has been so often given, and so often found to be false, that we coneekve ourselves to be fully justified in iectiving,it with Lnat doubt. A vessel has, we understand, arrived attiverpool, front Boston, the Captain of which states, that a posit:o,n had buen made in the House of Repre sentatives in America for the renewal of the em b3rgo; but that after a long and very tumultuous debate, it was rejected by a large majority. A duel is said to have taken place between General SMITn, brot:ier to the Secretary, and Mr. JACSION, in whick the former was killed. The same writer, whose custom, we are sorry to be o'lliged to say it is, to libel the Admiralty, whose ftvlseltoods respecting the building of ,ships at Mil ;o7d, and whose blunders on the subjeet of Swedish, wt have already expoied, is " at his dirty work .in the Times of this morning. He accuses Lord MULGRAVEt and Mr, Cnoltnit of pro. posing to substitute " earthen ware" for litnum vitae, in the sheaves of blocks, and is prodigiously fa7etious on one of those sheaves having given proof of its twn fragility, by breaking to pieces by a fall on the Admiralty stairs. We he Lord MULGRAVE'S and Mr. CDOKER'S pardon for taking any notice of this Scribbler;but Ins swement is so full of ignorance and untruth, that we cannot resist the opportunity of putting to open shame, if he be capable of shame, a person who uses the Press for the worst of all purposes. The facts we understaud to be these : the son-in law of the celebrated Mr. BRpIDLE cAtcei%ing that a composition of certain, eart;.s were we:l oiit..l tor the purpose of sheave-s of blocks, and that they would be made at about one half the pi ice of those now in use, tried the -experiment at his nianufaaory in • Staffordshire, and also in a dozen coasting t'es,cls from Sunderland, in all of which trials they were , found to answer so well as to icdace him to take out a Patent for the invention/ previously to which he had obtained the favonr able opinion on the subjeEt of the first chemist iri Europe, Professor DAVY. But what has the. Admiralty to do with all this. ? Why this much; and no more, that the inventor hav ing requeStcd he p rofessional Gentlemen at that Board to view his invention, they condescended to do so,— " the head and front of their offending has this ex /tent no more," that they did not refuse in this case, what is never refused to any one, to examine and give fair trial to a project which was stated to be ad vantageous tp the service over which they preside. Whether or riot it .may hereafter be found ad. visable generally to use this invention in the Royal Navy we cannot say, but we hope that neither the dull nor the merry malignity of the Times will prevent the Board of Admiralty from giving a patient hearing and trial to any invention which pro fesses to lighten the expences of naval equipment, and to open new sources of supply to the bulwark' of not the liberties, of England alone, but of the freedom of all the world: To the other charge of this Writer, relative to Messrs. LAID1)11 fire-hearths, we shall give, we pledge out selves, a most satisfaaory answer to-mor row. We have already occupied too much of this day's Paper with thic subjea. The following has been circulated as a corre6t, account of the correspondence which lately pasted between Lord ME.LviLLa and Mr. PiiRCAVAL, and the causes which led to it : " That an offer was made to Mr. ROBERT DUN DAs, then Secretary for Ireland, of the Secietary ship for the Colonial . Department, is matter of pub lic notoriety; that this was refused is evident, and that it was refused after a 'communication on the subjeet with his father, there seems no reason to doubt ; but that Lord MELVILLE, in reply to this application, expressed a with to receive some inti mation ,respecting his own appointment to office, is totally unfounded. It is obvious, that bad Mr. ROBERT DUNDAS accepted this higher official situa tioh, it would not have left his father flee to signify his sentiments on such Ministerial measures as he might feel to be objeaionahle ; he was therofore unwilling to owe any obligation which might be held to bind him to the support of Administration. On this ground he advised his son to decline the offered appointment, which was declined accord ingly, and Mr. R. DUNDAS resumed his former station at the Board of Controul. Mr. PEriCEVAL, who knows well the value of that aid which the praelical talents and legitimate influence of Lord MELVILLE could impart, found it necessary to apologise for ab. staining from calling him into that ostensible pub lic statiop, to which, by his abilities and his services, he acknowledged him to be so highly entitled ; and his • apology consisted in his tear of that prejudice, which he did not conceive to be suffici ently subdued in the popular mind to render his return to power practicable; but, to soothe this in timation; he expressed himself instructed by his MAJESTY to offer his Lordship an Earldom, :as a testimony of the high estimation in which he held his character and services. His Lordship, without expressing to Mr. PERCEVAL any opinion on the management of public affairs under his administra tion,- and without intimating his intention ejther to oppose or support him, declined, with a becoming, but dignified humility, the proffered Earldom, and, alluded no further to . the reason alleged by Mr. PER CEVAL, as having influenced him in not 'soliciting his return to office, .than in wishing that it might be the last concession he would be called upon to make." Yesterday mottling, his MAJESTY, Princesses So. PHIA and AUGUSTA, accompanied by Lady THYNNE and General MANNERS, went to, St. George's cha pel, and heard o sermon, and afterwards returned to the Palace. A Common Halt will be held on Wednesday next at 12 o'clock, to receive the report of the She riffs relative to the Resolutions of the last'Common- Hall, they having , been refused an audience of his MAJESTY.—On Thursday the Lord Mayor will hold a Court of Common Council. Reinforcements to a considerable amount are im mediately to be embarked for Portugal. Three General Officers, among whom is General LEITH, are to accompany them. Parliament meets to-morrow, for the dispatch of business. CORN EXCif ANGE, JAN. 29—To-day the remain ing supplies of Foreign Wheat are very abundant, end.rather considerable quantities of other articles ; the craft not being able to unload the vessels, ov ing to the Thames navigation being stopped in the Pool ; scarce any sales are mace, nor are the prices quoted. We have communications from Spain ; from the South to the 28th ult. and from the North to the 6th ins , . In the former letters from Andalusia, very sanguine • expectations were employed on the improved state of the pattiot armies, and on the ultimate success of the Spanish cause. The 2d battalion of the 4th, or King's own; awl the Ist battalion of the 28th, have received orders to march immediately from Col Chester to Portsmouth, to embark for Gibraltar. A chain of fortifications is immediately to be erected on both sides of the river Shannon, from Tarbert to Loop and Kevry Heads. NAVAL -NEWS. COUPES, 20.—Arrived here this morning the Prussian boy Goode Wer 1P agting, KOK, master, with a cargo of timber from Gottenburgh, for a market; the ship John Frith, Captain BARDEN, from St. Thomas, with a cargo of coffee bound for London, having received some damage. A convoy for Guernsey is now passing through our Roads, with alight breeze to N. E. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Orestes from a cruise ; fell in with a vessel at sea, out of which she took an Officer charged with the official dispatches of the surrender , of the Island of Bourbon, with which he landed and set off for Lon don. Arrived his Majesty's frigate Quebec, Hon. Capt . PouLBTT, and Princess Charlotte, Capt. To atN, from Portsmouth, and the Sybille, Capt. UPTON, from the Cork station ; the Spanish brig El Bruen AITA MV NOZ, Master, from Ma laga, laden with fruit, bound to London, and is under quarantine. Also arrived the L'Hirondelle French brig privateer, of t 4 guns, captured by his Majesty's ship Medusa. His . Majesty'sfrigates, Unicorn, Capt. Kelm, and Medusa, Hon. Capt. Bouvaate, have detained and sent in here the American ship illentor, Jouti WIL iIAMS, Master, from New-York, laden with cot ton, wool, skins, and tobacco, bound to St. Se bastian's, and is under quarantine , . The Medusa frigate ,has also detained an Ameri can vessel, which is not yet arrived. His Majesty's ship Amelia, Hon. Capt. IRBY, has detained and sent in here the American brig Rein deer. Sailed his Majesty's ship Philoniel, Capt. CRAW LEY, on a cruize; the Rhin frigate, Capt. MAL COLM, with a fleet of vi&uallers under convoy, for Admiral STOPFORD'S squadron in Quiberon Bay and Basque Roads; Espiegle sloop of war on a cruize; and the Fancy cutter, fOr Falmouth. DEAL, Dec. .9,l.—Came in from Yarmouth his Majesty's ship Tartar, and sailed through the Downs for Portsmouth. Arrived his Majesty's ship Alert from,Newfountl land ; Prometheus from Yarmouth ; and the Furious gun-brig from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ship Majestic for Sheerness; and the Royalist sloop of war on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 21 —Sailed his Majesty's ship Illustrious, with the Earl Camden, Ocean , Wexford, ilrniston, and Winchelsea, East India ships, under convoy. LordMtwro arrived at Madras the 11th of Sep tember. On the 17th he dispatched the Ganges, country ship, with the official accounts of the happy termination of the military insurrection, as danger ous, considering the talents and: situation of she leaders, as any that ever, occurred in our foreign settlements - . The Ganges had arrived at St. Helena, from whence she sailed on the 29th November, and may be hourly expe6ted. Advices have been received by the William, of the arrival of 'the Taunton Castle and Dover Castle at Bombay, on the 12th September, and the Mar chioness of Exeter on the igth of the same month. The Lord Castlereagh arrived at Calcutta on the igth cof August. The Aidaeier, country ship, bound to London, was bu'int by accident on the 14th September. General Sir JAMES CRAIG, Commander of the forces in the North America, has in General Orders, noticed the novel condua of the serjeants of the Ist liattalon of the Royal Fusileers, who, on the promotion of Captain ORR• from an Adjutancy to a Company, presented him with an address. Sir JAMES does justice to the motives by which the men N were a&uated, but observes, that in presuming to meet in order to deliberate on the condua of • th , :ir superior Officer, they have; however unintentionally, been guilty of an aCt of great insubordination.' That to meet for the purpose of expressing their respect and esteem for an Officer implies discussion, which renders them obnoxious to the above_itnputation.— The Commander in Chief, approving the principles laid down by Sir JAMES, and in order to give them currency, has direCted the. General Orders to be cir culated;throughout the army. KING'S THEATRE.—The last new ,Opera of 11 Principe di -Tarantm, was performed• on Saturday, • with some alterations which improVed the generol effeet. TRAMAZlANl , displayed his fine voice in a very impressive manner. 'We were sorry to find that the spirit of dissension spread itself to the Opera House- on this occasion ;- a vehement demaOd . for DESHAYES having issued from the pit and the gal lery. A Gentleman, whose name-it seems is REED, came forward on the Stage, and having bowed very respectiially to the audience, (but not in such a man ner as to phew that he was a pupil of DE!iHAY ES), informed them . that that performer had been offered, • by Mr. TAYLOR, I.le same terms as he had last year, and that the dispute was referred to arbitra tion. This information proving unsatisbctory, and the Ballet not being suffered to proceed, Mr. HEED came: on again, and assured the audience, that if they would permit the dance to go on, a full state ment of the case of the Manager should be-preSent ed to the Subscribers and the Public before the next night of performance. The audience assented to these terms, and the Ballet then proceeded with out further interruption. The Tolls on the Witham road, between LincOln and Boston, which twenty, years ago were taken for - 3001. have lately been let-for 30001. i - ADJOURNED LONDON SESSIOI43, JAN. 20. CHILD DROPPINO. Elizabeth Pugh and Thomas Pugh were indicted for conspiring, with other persons unknown, to de fraud the overseers of the poor of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, by exposing there a child of tender years, and W hich must, of necessity, have become a burden On tlie funds`of that parish. William Sculthorpe, a letter carrier, proved his having found a child, not above two years old, at the door of the house of Mr. Moseley, in Castle street, Holborn, at past nine o'clock, on the night of the 31st August last, half way between the step of the door and the curb-stone. He took it up and kept it on his knee till Mr. Moseley came out, and who humanely took the child in. Mr. Moseley stated, that after some ineffectual, endeavours to get the child into the Foundli ng Hos pital, he sent it to the workhouse, Ann Taylor • nursed the child_ from the sth Oct. 11107, till the 27th August last„ when Mrs. Pugh took her away, but afterwards, .on the remonstrance of a Mrs. Daily, who suspected, some ,injury was intended to the infant, was given in charge to another nurso of the name of Inglis, from whom, however, she was taken between seven and eight on the Thurs day evening following. A coachman proved carrying the two prisoners and the child (on the night the latter was exposed) to Castle.street, Holborn; and Elizabeth Feary - swore, that Mrs. Pugh had told her, that, in the event of the death of the child, who had been en trusted to her care, .she should have 3001. . The fa ther of the child was an otEct!r, who had settled that sum on the child, and on tier death tits Li k oLicy was to come to Mrs. Pugh, This story she often repeated to the, witne::;cintirnating her wish for the' death of the child This alarmed the witness, and • she, in consequence, warned the nurse to whom the child was entrusted John Timbray proved Thomas Pugh's confession, , that . a letter appointing the meeting with Eliiabeth Pugh, at St. Andrdw's church, Holborn, On the 31st August, was in his hand-writing. A long defence ,was read by Thomas Pugh, who is 85 years of age, and was father 7 in-law to Eliza beth Pugh, in which he threw the whole blame on the woman prisoner. Mr. GURNEY, for Elizabeth Pugh, contended, that the whole circumstances of the case proved that his client had no intention to put the child out of the way She had paid to]. to the other de fendant, Thomas Pegh, who had undertaken tG, get it provided for, where there would be no proba bility of its mother being inquired after, and in this he had deceived her. The RECORDER made a suitable charge to the Jury, who immediately found both the prisoners Guilty. The RECORDER then pronounced the sentence of the Court to be, that each of the defendants be im- prisoned in Gilt spur-street Compter for six calendar . months. As very erroneous opinions are entertained rela tive to the Prench Ports being open, it may te! use-• ful to many persons to know that our Government have for some time' past refused to grant License; permitting the importation of Wine, Brandy, Ge neva, Clover Seed, and other articles, which are the superabundant native produce of France and Hole' laud (Corn and Burr Stones excepted) ; and it ap pears that the Licenses lat e ly granted in France, expressly allowing their exportation, have in no shape induced Government to, relax in their orders for stride) , preventing their introduCtion into this count?. It may also be remarked, from the tenor of the answers now given at the Treasury, that ap-: plicatioes for the revival of this trade are perfeCtly useless ; and when we consider that it has been carried on 'so manifestly to the disadvantage of this co entry, by giving the enemy, under the mask of neutrality, att enormous rate of treightage.—by giving a vent :for their most important articles of cormnerce;—ernploying the seamen of their allies and dependents, and draining us of our specie tn most alarming extent, upon what principle could such a trade he continued ? From AMsterdam we have letters to the 12th inst. which probablywill be the last we shall receive for serne time, as the • severity of the season must obstruel the communication. On the . 1 oh, King Lours had not artived at his capital, nor was he im mediately expected, ,as it was understood, by ac counts from Paris, that he - would not quit that city until tl.e.teth, or perhaps until after the I tit inst. A Gentleman has, for some months past; been usefully engaged in experiments for p , ocurivg flax from brooM, by the following process :—sleep the twigs, or the former year's branches (preserving the most vigorous shoots), for twq, or three weeks,•ac cording to the heat of the season, in sounatit mqlter, or boil them for an h >ur - in water ; this done, .ihcg flax separates freely from the twigs ; and where there is not machinery for the purpose, it may be stripped off by children or others, at any time when not quite dry, as hemp is reeled from • the stalk. What adds to the value of the discovery is, that on being cleared of the flax and steeped for some time in boiling water, the twigs or wood become tough, and beautifully white, and are worth, at a medium, from a shilling to eighteen dence per lb. for making carpet broonis,B:c. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. William Haneocks,_Thomas Bolton, William Piper, Joshua Nicholas, and George Babb, of Mitten, Worcestershire, shire. James Fryer and john Whitney, of llitchin, Herefordsitirr, woollen-drapers. Samuel Catesby and John Hughes, of Bedford-streer, co vent-gaiden, men-mercers: . Chistoplier and John Berry, of Norwich, stationers- Thomas Cockle and Rebert Clark Paul, of Gloucestershire, clothiers. Edward Moore Noble.and Thomas,Ross, of Birmingham, steel toy. makers. Henry Nickolls and Charles Norton, junior, of Birming6ill, builders. Mosely Solomon and Saul Mordecai Solomon, of Binning* ham, tutors- - _- . . ~ Wiiiiam bariser and loseph Huggins „Barker, of the GOA- Exchange, Co.il-factors. . . 4 George Booth Bartitt Crompton, and . , William Bar :';.1,1t, i merchants, Tha mcs-street . ii.. Robert Spear, Lin Dillon, ard Alexander Halliday. Robert Spear, Lin Dillon, Alexander Jlalliday, and John Priestley. - 7 William Comer, and Felix P.rAtt s Lanes Delph i Stairerd s merchants. : .. . • re q ova aar gar (11 1) t ill